7; see text Nahuatlea is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae.

[1] The species which constitute genus Nahuatlea were originally placed in genus Gochnatia.

It was later discovered that Gochnatia was not monophyletic, and included a number of distinct clades.

In 2017 Vicki Funk combined Mexican species of Gochnatia into a new genus Nahuatlea.

Funk concluded that the genus is a sister to the Caribbean genus Anastraphia, and their common ancestor originated from South America in a dispersal event, evidenced by the fact that the Mexican Gochnatia (now Nahuatlea) are more morphologically similar to the Andean members of Gochnatia than to Anastraphia.